American Farmland Trust has once again launched its America’s Farmers Market Celebration, an effort to support and celebrate the role that farmers markets play in their communities. While farmers markets have long served as pillars of local food in urban centers and town squares, in recent years, farmers’ markets have gained the national recognition they deserve as essential businesses that power farmers and communities to thrive. “Through America’s Farmers Market Celebration, AFT is lifting up the markets, farmers, vendors, and community members who prove that investing in local agriculture delivers benefits far beyond the market day.” The first place for “regional choice” and “state” winners for each region will receive a gift bag of merchandise and a digital award package. The America’s Farmers Market Celebration also identifies the top markets in each state and in the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and Pacific regions.